Counter-Currents/North American New Right Newsletter: August 2011

The summer months are typically the doldrums among White Nationalist organizations and websites. Not so at Counter-Currents. In terms of web traffic, August was our best month ever.

1. Our Blog

In August, we added 78 posts to the website (up from 68 last month), for a total of 1,085 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added over 300 new comments.

2. Our Readership and Web Traffic

In August, we had 81,012 visits (up from 66,093 visits in July). We had 40,002 unique visitors in August (up dramatically from 30,186in July). These visitors looked at 502,282 pages (up significantly from 416,309in July). More people are using the site more intensively than ever before.

Our “hits” did not increase significantly, and our “bandwidth” went down, which are good things, due to optimization of our web hosting arrangements.

Month

Unique Visitors

Number of Visits

Pages Viewed

“Hits”

Bandwidth

June 2010

6,145

10,328

70,732

200,824

6.08 GB

July 2010

9,387

17,329

119,254

348,172

10.01 GB

August

12,174

22,348

93,379

333,614

10.17 GB

September

17,063

34,510

147,051

580,550

16.39 GB

October

17,848

35,921

140,365

611,367

17.93 GB

November

26,054

48,336

171,833

915,553

26.39 GB

December

26,161

50,975

192,905

1,101,829

27.79 GB

January

28,583

60,005

198,249

1,736,067

34.06 GB

February

29,737

61,519

213,121

2,081,558

40.13 GB

March

29,768

62,077

220,053

2,485,001

52.21 GB

April

20,091

58,037

223,291

2,729,449

54.65 GB

May

36,596

78,103

274,841

1,334,472

47.59 GB

June 2011

28,629

57,920

264,928

1,004,128

22.78 GB

July 2011

30,186

66,093

416,309

1,952,047

71.23 GB

August 2011

40,002

81,012

502,282

2,083,593

53.18 GB

3. August’sTop Ten Articles (with date of publication and number of readers)

Irmin Vinson, “Some Thoughts on Hitler,” April 20, 2011: 8,806

Gregory Hood, review of Scarface, February 27, 2011:3,865

Andrew Hamilton, “More on the White Rioters in England,” August 16: 2,437

Irmin Vinson on Hitler, Gregory Hood on Scarface, and Vic Olvir on Sylvia Plath remain some of our most popular essays. In addition, the French translation of the Vinson piece rose into the top ten, our first translation to do so.

In August, Counter-Currents sponsored a weekend retreat in the Bay Area for writers, donors, and other friends of Counter-Currents. For security reasons, the event was by invitation only and was not advertised to the public. Among the speakers were Kevin MacDonald, Mark Weber, and F. Roger Devlin. There were 43 men and women in attendance, including one who turned 17 at the event and another who is in her 80s. Everyone thought that the event went quite well, and plans are already underway for next year’s retreat.

I am now readying for press the first volume of North American New Right. North American New Right is our annual print journal that contains our best articles from each year. Its purpose is to provide an outlet for longer, scholarly articles and reviews that are best read in print rather than online.

Like all of our books, North American New Right will be published in hardcover and paperback, but the hardcover edition will only be available to our “Vanguardists” — those who donate $120 or more per year to Counter-Currents.

8. I Continue to Write

In August, I published 9 posts, 5 of them quite substantial (for a total of 125), and 5 new translations (for a total of 50).

9. Our Articles Continue to be Reprinted and Translated

In August, Robert Steuckers’ Euro-Synergies, the leading European New Right blog, came back from hiatus and reprinted 10 of our articles, for a total of 121, more than 11% of our total output. For a full report, click here.

On June 11, 2011, Counter-Currents celebrated our first anniversary. To mark it, we launched a fund-raising drive. We hope to raise $25,000, and we have raised more than $11,000 so far. You can follow our progress with the thermometer on the right.

We will keep the drive going until the end of Summer. I want to thank all the donors, including several anonymous donors, who have generously supported us.

We call the group of people who have made, or pledged to make, donations of $120 or more in a year “the Vanguard”: they went first. They did not wait to follow others.

If you have been thinking about supporting our efforts, now is the time to begin.

One incentive to join the Vanguard is that we have decided to limit the deluxe hardcover edition of our annual journal North American New Right to 200 numbered copies, which will be available only to Vanguard members, i.e., donors who give $120 or more in a given year, either in lump sums or by monthly donations.

12. “Program Yourself” . . . and pass the savings on to Counter-Currents

I want to draw your attention to a passage from the new Trevor Lynch essay, “Why I Write“:

There is, however, a sense in which I boycott television, and I recommend others do so as well. I don’t watch broadcast television, and I refuse to pay for cable. So I don’t watch commercials, and the only TV series I see are downloaded or on DVD. I don’t like being “programmed.” My slogan is “Program yourself.” And I just don’t want to spend the money.

It astonishes me how much money White Nationalists pay to people who hate them in order to have toxic propaganda piped into their homes. It is even more shocking when you compare your monthly cable bill to your monthly donations to Counter-Currents or other pro-white websites, where people are actually fighting against the lies. So if you feel the need to boycott someone, cancel your cable and subscribe to a monthly donation to Counter-Currents instead. Don’t be the sort of person who pays to be poisoned but counts on the antidote to be free.

Not only do many of our people pay monthly fees for the privilege of piping cultural poison into their homes, they also pay monthly fees to health clubs and gyms. Well, think of a monthly donation to Counter-Currents as joining a mental health club.

By the way, the Lynch essay is part of the introduction to his first book, Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies, to be published later this year by Counter-Currents.

13. The Amazon.com Affiliate Program

Wouldn’t it be great if you could choose where your sales taxes go? Well, Amazon.com’s Affiliate Program allows you to earmark 7% of your Amazon purchases to Counter-Currents at no additional cost to you. That is about the average sales tax that Americans pay.

That’s why we are so grateful to all of you who have been using Counter-Currents affiliate links to make your purchases at Amazon.com.

In July, 154 items were ordered this way, and Counter-Currents received just over $150 in commissions, 7% of the purchase price. This is particularly impressive, given that only a small percentage of our readers are actually using these links — I would estimate fewer than 10% of the people on this newsletter list. (This is just a guess. Amazon.com protects your privacy even when you buy through an affiliate link.) If everyone reading this were to take part in this program, our support would grow considerably.

14. Our Amazon.com Bookmark has Changed

At the end of June, we had to change our Amazon.com bookmark link. Please update it, as the old bookmark no longer works. If you have Amazon.com bookmarked on your computer, click the following link and then replace your bookmark with the page that appears. This will allow you to go directly to Amazon.com, and Counter-Currents will receive the same commission.

This link takes you to the Non-Fiction Books page. For some reason, Amazon.com will not allow us to construct a link to their home page. Also, we cannot build links to Amazon.com stores outside the US. If there is a particular Amazon.com page to which you usually go first, email me and let me know, and I will happily construct a custom affiliate link for you. It is that important that we make it easy for you to participate.

Note: The affiliate link gives Counter-Currents a commission on anything you buy on Amazon.com, on any page, so long as you enter Amazon through one of the links.

Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd.
& North American New Right

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